Livi Yoshioka-Maxwell
Biographic Data
| ID | 6562477 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Livi Yoshioka-Maxwell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Livi |
| FAMILY NAME | Yoshioka-Maxwell |
| SIGNATURE | YOSHIOKA-MAXWELL L |
| AFFILIATIONS | St. Olaf College |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9034-3506 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Neo-orientalisms in Leïla Sebbar’s Métro
This article examines Leïla Sebbar's engagement with colonial-era orientalist iconography in her 2007 text Métro: instantanés, a collection of literary snapshots of scenes glimpsed in the Parisian metro dating from 1997 through 2006. Whereas critics have frequently affirmed that Sebbar's evocations of orientalist visual artefacts work to subvert orientalist discourse, the author proposes that a number of these snapshots constitute a largely uncri…
Transit intestinal
This article draws on Michel de Certeau's notion of tactical resistance to examine the practices of reading and of using urban space in Raymond Queneau's Zazie dans le métro. Departing from formalist approaches that frame Queneau's Paris as a ‘construction verbale,’ I offer a historically situated analysis of the novel's representation of post-war Paris, demonstrating that the theme of semiotic instability, frequently explored in studies of the n…
Mirages de l'outre-mer”
This essay examines Rachid Boudjedra's novel Topographie idéale pour une agression caractérisée (1975) in relation to two intertwined shifts in global patterns of mobility that shape the historical moment of the novel's narrative setting of 1973: the evolving status of postcolonial subjects traveling to France and the explosion of mass tourism. Focusing on the experiences of the unnamed protagonist, an Algerian emigrant murdered upon arrival in P…
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Mirages de l'outre-mer”
This essay examines Rachid Boudjedra's novel Topographie idéale pour une agression caractérisée (1975) in relation to two intertwined shifts in global patterns of mobility that shape the historical moment of the novel's narrative setting of 1973: the evolving status of postcolonial subjects traveling to France and the explosion of mass tourism. Focusing on the experiences of the unnamed protagonist, an Algerian emigrant murdered upon arrival in P…
Transit intestinal
This article draws on Michel de Certeau's notion of tactical resistance to examine the practices of reading and of using urban space in Raymond Queneau's Zazie dans le métro. Departing from formalist approaches that frame Queneau's Paris as a ‘construction verbale,’ I offer a historically situated analysis of the novel's representation of post-war Paris, demonstrating that the theme of semiotic instability, frequently explored in studies of the n…
Neo-orientalisms in Leïla Sebbar’s Métro
This article examines Leïla Sebbar's engagement with colonial-era orientalist iconography in her 2007 text Métro: instantanés, a collection of literary snapshots of scenes glimpsed in the Parisian metro dating from 1997 through 2006. Whereas critics have frequently affirmed that Sebbar's evocations of orientalist visual artefacts work to subvert orientalist discourse, the author proposes that a number of these snapshots constitute a largely uncri…
Art (3 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works) · Humanities (2 works) · Adventure (1 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · Ambiguity (1 works) · Art history (1 works) · China's Global Influence and Migration (1 works) · Close reading (1 works)